On a sunny day, there are few finer places to be than strolling the beautiful gardens and grounds of Johnstown Castle in ...

Rare native plants will become extinct and non-native deer will increase across Ireland under the influence of climate change. Researchers from University College Cork say beauties such as spring ...

The nearly 80-acre Iron Creek Preserve features a rare wetland ecosystem, hiking trails, and a mature forest along Iron Creek ...

Rare native plant species are set to become extinct arising out the impact of climate change, researchers at UCC have revealed. The research team, based in UCC’s Department of Geography and ...

Endemic plants are those found only in a specific place—like a secret recipe passed down through generations. In Ireland’s wetlands, this means species that have evolved to fit perfectly into ...

Fifteen years after Daniel Hinkley collected ripe seed in Vietnam, Seattle sees a Rhodoleia parvipetala bloom for the first time in North America.

Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defense in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from south-eastern Ireland. Plants can protect their wood from infection and water ...

An Irish charity is trying to stop increasingly rare Irish plants dying out by preserving them in their seed bank. True Harvest Seeds on the sleepy shores of Strangford Lough has gathered around ...

Rare Scottish plants including snow pearlwort and drooping saxifrage are being driven up Scotland's mountains by climate change – and could become EXTINCT if temperatures continue to rise, study ...

Conservationists at Killarney National Park have confirmed the discovery of a rare plant, which has not been spotted in over a century. The Yellow Bird's Nest, or monotropa hypopitys, was last ...

Carnivorous plants at Mutschler's Rare Plants, 6601 Perkiomen Ave., Exeter Township. ... two people came from Ireland and two people came from Alaska in the same class,” Mutschler said.